#2005 - at sea

2005

6.179

28.vi.25

at sea

ekphrastic for Jóhanna Sveinsdóttir’s 1946 ‘From the Westman Islands’

 

the world has just these few shapes, colours

this many brush strokes of the mind

 

to fight, to love, to tangle here

 

that’s cloud there

here’s a heaving sea

 

dark moss climb

the eye behind

 

there isn’t a boat

but I’m in the picture

 

there’s nothing human but to see

there’s no time here at all